| Online marketing challenges can be tough. I | | | | are not good. Here's the tricky part: You can't tell! |
| started working online as an affiliate back in 2004, | | | | They all try to tell you they are good. |
| after reading a "How to get rich" eBook. I had | | | | I think the most frustrating part of it all was the |
| also tried "paid surveys," "ad blasters," and other | | | | fact that a lot of the time, you would start a |
| promising opportunities with absolutely no success. | | | | survey and then the survey would stop and it |
| I actually do not know anyone who makes | | | | would not allow you to continue, based on your |
| money doing surveys, I suppose the reason being | | | | age, experience or certain answers you input. |
| that for someone to succeed at it they would | | | | Sometimes, you would complete a paid survey |
| have to work very hard for little payment. | | | | and it did not pay you for your time, only ask |
| The money I made for the week while doing | | | | you to sign up for a raffle. |
| surveys came out to about $1 per hour, but this | | | | Most of the emails I received were raffles, with |
| is just the beginning. I had signed up for a "survey | | | | the occasional $1 reward. I did complete a few of |
| database membership" and was very excited | | | | the $1 rewards, but they took 20 minutes to |
| since the last "Work from home" opportunity I | | | | finish, so I thought to myself, "I think I would |
| had tried was a letter stuffing scam. The thought | | | | have a better time working at McDonalds then |
| of working from home on my computer was | | | | doing this." Not to mention I would make more |
| incredible. | | | | money! |
| So here I was, signing up for the paid surveys, | | | | About a week later I read my first affiliate |
| following the instruction to "sign up for as many | | | | marketing e-book, and I knew it would work. It |
| as possible." After 2 days, I had signed up with a | | | | just made sense. I took to it naturally and loved |
| couple hundred surveying companies. The spam | | | | the concept. I started making money with affiliate |
| began. They tell you to learn to identify the right | | | | marketing almost immediately. After I |
| kinds of survey opportunities, preferably the ones | | | | accomplished a challenge, It was just a matter of |
| that actually pay you, so part of the challenge is | | | | repeating the process and so on, to make more |
| going through your email every hour, and following | | | | money. |
| links in the spam email, and deleting the ones that | | | | |